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[Stephen Goranson]

Quoting Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU>:

> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Benjamin Zimmer
> <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Stephen Goranson wrote:
>>>
>>> The Intercollegian and Far Horizons, vol. 55 no. 2, November 1937,
>>> "What Makes a Strong Student Christian Association?" by Paul E.
>>> Pfwetze, pages
>>> 35-36. Page 36 col. 1:
>>> A strong Association evaluates its progress by these tests:
>>> 1....
>>> [col. 2:]
>>> 10. Is it inspired by the prayer attributed to Reinhold Niebuhr:
>>> "Father, give us courage to change what must be altered, serenity to
>>> accept what cannot be helped, and the insight to know the one from
>>> the other."
>>> Reprinted from "Notes and Views" (Published by the Pacific Southwest Field
>>> Council).
>>
>> A minor correction: that's "News and Views." Appears to be a YMCA
>> publication.
>
> Another correction: the author's name is Pfuetze, not Pfwetze. He was
> a student of Niebuhr.
>
>
> --Ben Zimmer

A student (later?) of H. Richard Niebuhr rather than of Reinhold Niebuhr?

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goransopn

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